Search papers

Search looks through the content of all processed papers in your workspace and returns the passages that match.

Search

const { items } = await paperful.search.query("quarterly revenue growth");

for (const result of items) {
  console.log(result.paper.fileName, result.score);
  console.log(result.content);
}

Each result includes:

Field	Description
`content`	The matching passage.
`score`	How relevant the result is.
`paper`	The paper the passage belongs to.
`nodes`	The nodes the passage came from, with their pages.
`matches`	The matched terms and where they appear in the passage.

To expand a result into the content around it, see Search to context.

Choose a search mode

const { items } = await paperful.search.query("revenue",
  {
    mode: "fulltext",
  }
);

Mode	Description
`hybrid`	Combines keyword and semantic search. The default.
`fulltext`	Matches the exact words in your query.
`semantic`	Matches by meaning, even when the words differ.

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